Primavera P6 Professional Advanced Rel 19 Ed 1 — Lesson 3: Baselines, Earned Value, and Forecasting

Technical Scope

• baseline assignment, primary and secondary comparisons, and change control
• planned value, earned value, actual cost, CPI, SPI, and variance drivers
• estimate at completion, remaining duration, trend analysis, and forecast confidence
• performance narrative, threshold exceptions, management actions, and evidence

Instructor Demonstration

The instructor will analyze and reconcile baseline assignment, primary and secondary comparisons, and change control in the context of a complex capital program requiring defensible schedule logic, resource decisions, performance forecasts, and recovery options. The demonstration captures commands, configuration, transactions, output, logs, plans, or screenshots that prove both the intended behavior and the control boundary.

Applied Workshop

Learners complete a controlled exercise covering planned value, earned value, actual cost, CPI, SPI, and variance drivers and estimate at completion, remaining duration, trend analysis, and forecast confidence, then introduce a realistic exception involving performance narrative, threshold exceptions, management actions, and evidence. They record assumptions, exact steps, expected and observed results, a reversible correction, and the evidence required for operational acceptance.

1. Confirm scope, identities, data, dependencies, controls, and expected result.
2. Perform the product-specific configuration, development, analysis, or business-process task.
3. Capture reproducible technical or transaction evidence and compare it with the expected value.
4. Explain the operational, security, performance, data-quality, or business trade-off.

Validation Standard

Acceptance for Baselines, Earned Value, and Forecasting requires the result to be reproducible, traceable to approved inputs, consistent with the relevant Oracle or platform behavior, and supported by checks for security, data integrity, reliability, performance, and recoverability.

• The intended target, scope, and ownership are verified.
• Expected-value and negative-path checks pass.
• Security, reliability, performance, data quality, and support impacts are reviewed.
• Unexpected behavior is resolved before acceptance.

Failure Analysis

When the result differs from expectation, learners isolate the smallest proven cause across baseline assignment, primary and secondary comparisons, and change control, planned value, earned value, actual cost, CPI, SPI, and variance drivers, estimate at completion, remaining duration, trend analysis, and forecast confidence; they avoid speculative production changes, preserve evidence, apply the lowest-risk correction, rerun the test, and document prevention.

Practical Outcome

Complete and defend a validated result for Baselines, Earned Value, and Forecasting with a reusable implementation record or runbook.